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The golden compass / by Pullman, Philip,1946-;
This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
Subjects: Banned book sanctuary.; Fantasy; Missing persons; Alternate worlds; Kidnapping;
© c1996., Alfred A. Knopf,
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The strangers / by Haddix, Margaret Peterson.; Lambelet, Anne.;
Told from separate viewpoints, Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone, ages twelve, ten, and eight, investigate why their mother went missing and uncover their ties to an alternate world.Ages 8-12.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Missing persons; Families; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The messengers / by Haddix, Margaret Peterson.; Lambelet, Anne.;
Told from separate viewpoints, as evil forces from the parallel world invade their home, the Greystones, their doubles, and friends must return to the alternate dimension to save both worlds.Ages 8-12.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Families; Good and evil; Brainwashing;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My little pony equestria girls [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Strong, Tara; Ball, Ashleigh; Libman, Andrea;
Director, Jayson Thiessen.Andrea Libman, Tara Strong, Ashleigh Ball.When a crown is stolen from the Crystal Empire, Twilight Sparkle pursues the thief into an alternate world where she transforms into a teenage girl who must survive her biggest challenge yet: high school. With help from her new friends who remind her of Ponyville's Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy, she embarks upon a quest to find the crown and change the destiny of these two parallel worlds.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Children's.; Children's films.; Animated.;
© 2013., Shout! Factory,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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American royals / by McGee, Katharine.;
In an alternate America, princesses Beatrice and Samantha Washington and the two girls wooing their brother, Prince Jefferson, become embroiled in high drama in the most glorious court in the world.LSC
Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Love stories.; Princesses; Princes; Courts and courtiers; Heiresses; Brothers and sisters; Interpersonal relations in adolescence;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Out of the blue / by June, Jason.;
Told in alternating voices, Crest, a merperson, who grudgingly undergoes a mandatory sojourn to help a human within one moon cycle or risk staying on land forever, suddenly develops feelings for his beneficiary Sean, leaving them torn between two worlds.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Mermen; Gays; Dating (Social customs);
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The case of the missing moonstone / by Stratford, Jordan.; Murphy, Kelly,1977-;
"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852;
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The sisters Sputnik : a novel / by Favro, Terri,author.;
An odyssey wrapped in a love story, set in a near-future of artificial people. The Sisters Sputnik are a time-traveling trio of storytellers-for-hire who are much in demand throughout the multiverse of 2,052 alternate worlds. Each world was created by the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Earth Standard Time, home of the Sisters' leader, aging comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi, her 20-something apprentice Unicorn Girl, and their pop culture--loving AI, Cassandra. Tales of Earth Standard Time-That-Was, from World Wars to the space race to Hollywood celebrities, have turned the Sisters into storytelling rock stars. In a distant reality where books and music have disappeared, Debbie finds herself in bed with an old Earth Standard Time lover who begs her to tell him a story. Over one long, eventful night, she spins the epic of the Sisters' adventures in alternate realities, starting with the theft of a book of evil comic strips in a post-pandemic Toronto full of ghost kitchens and robot-worshipping lost children known as junksters, to a disco-era purgatory where synthetic people are sending humans into the past through a reverse-engineered Statue of Liberty, to a version of the 1950s where the Sisters meet a rising star named Frank Sinatra and his girlfriend, the once-and-future Queen of England.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Multiverse; Storytellers; Time travel;
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The Kaiju Preservation Society / by Scalzi, John,1969-author.;
"The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization." Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world. They're the universe's largest and most dangerous panda and they're in trouble. It's not just the Kaiju Preservation Society whose found their way to the alternate world. Others have, too. And their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Novels.; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Life on other planets; Monsters; Motor vehicle drivers; Multiverse; Space and time; Wildlife conservation; Wildlife conservationists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Orange for the sunsets / by Athaide, Tina.;
Includes bibliographical references.In alternating voices, friends Asha and Yesofu, one Indian and one African, find their world turned upside-down when Idi Amin decides to expel Asian Indians from Uganda in 1972.Ages 8-12LSC
Subjects: Amin, Idi, 1925-2003; Friendship; Social classes; Ethnic relations; East Indians; Family life; Forced migration;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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